Word: steeled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...used moisturizer is still willing to go places you wouldn't go in body armor. So he gives us Brüno on a camping trip trying to seduce some revolted Alabama hunters; Brüno getting belt-whipped - hard - by a nude dominatrix; Brüno in a steel-cage match melting into wet kisses with his opponent while the crowd goes wild - and not in a good way. But even when Brüno is in a hotel room infuriating members of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - a situation that needs to be handled with care, especially...
...They all came together in this sense of, we are going to take care of each other. We sent our own paratroopers to bury each of our own killed. What I took away from that was, as you are going to do anything difficult, as you are going to steel yourself for anything that is going to be hard, you build that team first. You can't prepare for an accident. What you prepare is the people in the team and the trust between them, and that will then withstand even the unexpected. I have the same thought process...
...earth's gravity.) They track pilots' conversations, engine noises, air-traffic-control commands, fuel levels, landing-gear extension and retraction and dozens of other clicks and pops that might offer insights about a plane's final moments. The boxes are made out of quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel. And in case you're wondering, an entire airplane can't be made out of the same material or it would be too heavy...
...looking for stuff that you don't really need or are a spouse intent on torturing your husband, just take a ride to Bed Bath & Beyond. After all, the home-furnishing retailer is famous for its selection of macho, must-have merchandise like sweet-smelling soaps, stainless-steel garbage cans and extra-fluffy towels. Like most home-furnishing retailers, Bed Bath & Beyond, a $7.2 billion company with more than 1,000 outlets nationwide, has stalled in the recession: same-store sales dropped 4.3% in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending in February, while earnings fell...
...overthrew apartheid began and as the former home of Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the township has long been at the forefront of change. Today shacks are being replaced by houses. Bars, restaurants and hotels are thriving. BMWs and Mercedeses clog the streets. Richard Maponya opened the glass-and-steel Maponya Mall on Soweto's main highway in 2007 with an ambition that it should be equal to any in the world. "Soweto has become this wonderful opportunity," he says. "It's becoming safer. Property prices are going up. Life is becoming just normal...